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Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.
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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
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RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
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PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
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Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.
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While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
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